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The president’s request for next year’s federal budget includes a 7 percent drop in funding for the National Institutes of Health and reductions for other science agencies.

The US Food and Drug Administration authorizes the distribution of the 2019-nCoV diagnostic to state health departments and other facilities.

A reinterpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 won’t punish oil and gas companies whose activities kill birds unintentionally, The New York Times reports.

Despite having valid visas to attend universities, more than a dozen would-be graduate students have been detained at the airport and sent back to Iran in recent months.

In government agencies, 20 percent of high-level science appointments are vacant, The Washington Post reports.

A new report from the National Science Board identifies changes in the US’s global R&D investment and output, as well as in the country’s science and engineering workforce in recent years.

Four University of Florida faculty members leave their jobs as a state committee that formed last month pledges to investigate individual researchers and institutions.

Offenses ranged from failure to disclose a consensual relationship to stalking and included three faculty members.

Last month, 10 UK universities became part of the UK Reproducibility Network, joining researchers, funders, journal publishers, and regulatory agencies.

Most of the panel’s members were appointed by the Trump administration.

Medicare for All could expand access to medical interventions—the very goal of biomedical research.

Rachel Madley, a Columbia University PhD student, discusses her views on access to healthcare.

The modification of three babies’ genes by He Jiankui drew widespread criticism from scientists.

Political newcomers to federal and state legislatures with STEM backgrounds are bringing evidence to drafting laws, yet getting bills passed remains elusive.

The legislative package for 2020 allots $25 million for gun-violence research, which has been on hold for more than two decades.

A working group has put forth suggestions for cracking down on misconduct, such as requiring grant applicants to disclose sexual harassment findings.

The National Defense Authorization Act calls for a new task force and roundtable to limit foreign government involvement in federally funded research.

The school will not return donations from the family that made its riches on opioids, but the university will start a $3 million endowment for addiction prevention and treatment.

An investigation reveals that the government is developing technology to try to reconstruct a person’s appearance based on a genetic sample, raising concerns for the rights of Muslim minority groups in the country.